Spring is charming, the brilliant days only varied by frequent thunderstorms-which, however, are almost invariable in keeping their pyrotechnics till about five in the afternoon.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
But we find ourselves merely another experiment, intricate and rather long drawn out, to be sure, with marvelous pyrotechnics, magnificent effects here and there, but bound to eliminate itself in the end, to make stuff for the museums of the real conqueror of the stars yet to come.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
Take the mountain-laurel, for instance; what a singular exhibition is this which we may observe on any twilight evening in the laurel copse, the dense clusters of pink-white bloom waited upon by soft-winged fluttering moths, and ever and anon celebrating its cordial spirit by a mimic display of pyrotechnics as the anthers hurl aloft their tiny showers of pollen!
"My Studio Neighbors"
William Hamilton Gibson